Non-refillable bottle.



C. S. HERSH & C. J. OCONNOR.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25.19I5- Patented July 11, 1916.

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NOLLREFILLAIBLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1216..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Cnannns S. l-lERsi-I, and CHRISTOPHER J. OCoNNon, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to bottles and more particularly to the non-refillable type, and has for an object to provide a bottle, which, when the original contents have been withdrawn, cannot be conveniently or commercially refilled.

Among other features the invention comprehends a bottle having few and simple parts which can be cheaply manufactured and easily assembled to provide a structure preventing the refilling of the bottle with an inferior or spurious fluid, after the original contents have been withdrawn. To this end use is made of a valve arranged and disposed to permit the contents of the bottle to be poured therefrom when the bottle is tilted, but which will actuate to prevent a refilling of the bottle, suitable means being also provided to prevent tampering with the valve for the purpose of securing it in a position calculated to allow a fluid to be poured into the bottle.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional View of the bottle showing the same in an upright position, the valve being in closed position, Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the bottle tilted, the valve in this instance being in open position, Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-8 in Fig. 1, Fig. t is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 4 l in Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken through a modified form of valve, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the valve shown in Fig. 5.

Referring more particularly to the views we disclose a bottle body 10 formed with the usual neck 11, having an enlarged annular rim 12, preferably formed with an annular groove 13. A. head 14: is formed to provide a valve chamber 15, said head including an annular rim 16 at its lower end.

The head 1% is superposed upon the rim 12 and a tubular element 17, including an integral annular flange 18, forms a valve seat and is interposed between the rims 12 and 1.6, the rim 16 being formed with an under cut portion 19 to receive a part of the valve seat with the depending tubular portion of the latter extending into the neck 11 of the bottle body 10. A suitable band or other fastening member 20 encircles rims 12 and 16 and has a portion 21 pressed into the groove 13, and another portion 22 pressed into-a groove 23 in the rim 16, the upper and lower edges of the fastening member belng crimped around the upper edge of the upper rim and the lower edge of the lower rim, respectively, thus rigidly securing the head 1&- to the bottle body.

A valve 2% is loosely arranged in the valve chamber 15 to normally repose upon the valve seat 17.

The character 24,- denotes a protector formed contiguous with the inner wall of the valve chamber and formed with a centrally located discharge opening 25. Formed on the bottom face of this protectng disk 24 are spaced L-shaped diametrically extending ribs 25 including a narrow vertical portion and a broadened horizontally extending portion, denoted by the respectlve characters 26 and 27 The function for the ribs will be clearly set forth as the description of the invention is proceeded with.

The upper part of the valve chamber 15 is partitioned by a baliie 26, disposed to lie horizontally in the valve chamber and having spaced supporting elements 27 holding the bathe in position and providing passages 28 for the fluid. The usual outlet passage or mouth of the valve chamber, indicated by the numeral 29 is normally sealed by a suitable cork or stopper 30 as clearly shown in Fig. 1, said stopper being first removed to open the exit passage before the bottle is tilted.

The valve 2 1 is formed of a single piece of material and includes a disk 31 and an upwardly formed head 32, at the center of the disk. In Figs. 1 and 2 the head is shown to be pressed up from the disk or body of the valve whereas in the modified form of valveshown in Figs. 5 and 6 the bead, indicated by the numeral 33 is formed as an additional part of the body or disk,

indicated by the numeral 84:. The valve 24,

upon the canting of the bottle, contacts with preventing the same from seating in the opening 25 of the protector 24, which as will be seen forms a tortuous passage for the liquid contained in the bottle and assures aganst any fraudulent tampering with the valve 24:, by the insertion of wire or the like implements within the bottle.

After the bottle body has been filled with the desired fluid the head 14:, with its component parts, is positionedupon the rim 12 of the neck 11, and rigidly secured thereon by the fastening member 20. Now when it is desired to pour some of thecontents of the bottletherefrom the bottle is tilted as shown in Fig. 2, thus causing the valve 24 toslide forwardly in the valve chamber and bear against the ribs 25, the exit from the neck being now open so that the fluid in the bottle can flow into the valve chamber, thence through passages 35, formed by the spaced ribs 25, into the upper part of the valve chamber, said fluid then flowing through the passages 28 and out through the exit passage or mouth of the head into a receptacle provided to receive the fluid.

It will be clearly seen that the baflie 26 prevents tampering with the valve and that the valve being freely disposed in the valve chamber, will return to closed position when an exterior pressure of fluid or some other medium is projected into the mouth end of the valve chamber, thereby preventing a convenient and practical refilling of the bottle.

unit that cannot easily get out of order and result in a binding of the valve.

Having described our invention, we claim,

A non-refillable bottle embodying a body,

a head thereon, means for securing the head .to said body, a valve seat interposed between the said body and head and depending in the bottle body, a disk valve loosely mounted in the valve chamber to normally repose upon the valve seat and having a bead, a protector formed in the upper part of said head and having a centrally located discharge opening, L-shaped ribs formed on the bottom of said protector and projecting into the valve chamber at opposite diametrically opposed points, and provided with a broadened horizontal portion, said valve adapted to repose upon the broadened portions of the ribs confining the bead thereof between the confronting ends of said portions and in spaced relation with the discharge opening of the protector when the body is tilted, and a baflie in the head above and in adjacent relation with the protector and provided with a series of spaced concentrically arranged passages.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES S. HERSH. CHRISTOPHER J. OCONNOR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

